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  r61520 | thomas.heller | 2008-03-18 16:03:17 +0100 (Di, 18 Mär 2008) | 5 lines

  Include <alloca.h> on Solaris, see issue #1506.

  It would probably be better to have a configure test for that, but
  this is outside of my configure expertise.
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  r61523 | brett.cannon | 2008-03-18 16:35:58 +0100 (Di, 18 Mär 2008) | 5 lines

  Remove all traces of HAVE_STRERROR.

  The removal of strerror.c led to the function check being removed from
  configure.in.
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  r61524 | brett.cannon | 2008-03-18 16:52:00 +0100 (Di, 18 Mär 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix test_errno to only check for error numbers that are defined by Standard C.
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  r61525 | steven.bethard | 2008-03-18 17:00:19 +0100 (Di, 18 Mär 2008) | 1 line

  Use test_support.unlink instead of os.unlink in tearDown().  (Seems to fix an occasional failure in Windows Vista.)
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  r61526 | brett.cannon | 2008-03-18 17:47:51 +0100 (Di, 18 Mär 2008) | 3 lines

  Cast the arguments to PyString_AsStringAndSize() to silence compiler warnings
  on OS X.
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  r61527 | sean.reifschneider | 2008-03-18 18:24:12 +0100 (Di, 18 Mär 2008) | 3 lines

  Issue 1577: shutil.move() where destination is a directory was doing a
  copy, now it is doing a os.rename() if it's on the same file-system.
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  r61528 | brett.cannon | 2008-03-18 18:25:13 +0100 (Di, 18 Mär 2008) | 12 lines

  Add Tools/scripts/patchcheck.py. Invoked from ``make check``, the script does
  some verification:

  - Runs reindent.py on all .py files.
  - Checks if any changes in Doc exist.
  - Whether Misc/ACKS was changed.
  - Whether Misc/NEWS was changed.

  The hope is that ``make check`` can become a command anybody can run to get
  reminders about what all the requisite steps needed to create a proper
  patch/checkin.
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  r61532 | neal.norwitz | 2008-03-18 18:58:02 +0100 (Di, 18 Mär 2008) | 1 line

  Get regrtest working when re-running tests
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diff --git a/Lib/shutil.py b/Lib/shutil.py
index c365ad6..e9cebae 100644
--- a/Lib/shutil.py
+++ b/Lib/shutil.py
@@ -187,26 +187,44 @@
     except os.error:
         onerror(os.rmdir, path, sys.exc_info())
 
-def move(src, dst):
-    """Recursively move a file or directory to another location.
 
-    If the destination is on our current filesystem, then simply use
-    rename.  Otherwise, copy src to the dst and then remove src.
+def _basename(path):
+    # A basename() variant which first strips the trailing slash, if present.
+    # Thus we always get the last component of the path, even for directories.
+    return os.path.basename(path.rstrip(os.path.sep))
+
+def move(src, dst):
+    """Recursively move a file or directory to another location. This is
+    similar to the Unix "mv" command.
+
+    If the destination is a directory or a symlink to a directory, the source
+    is moved inside the directory. The destination path must not already
+    exist.
+
+    If the destination already exists but is not a directory, it may be
+    overwritten depending on os.rename() semantics.
+
+    If the destination is on our current filesystem, then rename() is used.
+    Otherwise, src is copied to the destination and then removed.
     A lot more could be done here...  A look at a mv.c shows a lot of
     the issues this implementation glosses over.
 
     """
-
+    real_dst = dst
+    if os.path.isdir(dst):
+        real_dst = os.path.join(dst, _basename(src))
+        if os.path.exists(real_dst):
+            raise Error("Destination path '%s' already exists" % real_dst)
     try:
-        os.rename(src, dst)
+        os.rename(src, real_dst)
     except OSError:
         if os.path.isdir(src):
             if destinsrc(src, dst):
                 raise Error("Cannot move a directory '%s' into itself '%s'." % (src, dst))
-            copytree(src, dst, symlinks=True)
+            copytree(src, real_dst, symlinks=True)
             rmtree(src)
         else:
-            copy2(src,dst)
+            copy2(src, real_dst)
             os.unlink(src)
 
 def destinsrc(src, dst):